Instances have 3 options. Save it locally, proxy it, or do nothing. Saving every federated image is not feasible for small instances. It's not a fault of the protocol that instance operators don't want to pay a thousand dollars a month for storage. Matrix has this problem, and look what happened to them: tiny instances are expensive to run, so don't flourish.
There is a very loud population of AI-haters who don't hate AI but rather corporate AI but they don't know what the difference is and can be lead to water but won't drink it.
If they wanted to stick it to the AI companies, they'd be all in on the open source LLMs. They're not, though, because they don't understand it. They're just angry at this nebulous concept of AI because a few companies pissed in the well. Nobody was upset at AI Dungeon when that came out.
I reject the notion that a shared prefix raises privacy concerns because the alternative is they all share a single IP address as they do in v4.
Anyway, been v6 for years. Love it. It's just easier to work with, to be honest. It took me a while to get it, but once I rotated my brain a little and stopped thinking in v4 logic then it all clicked. My ISP is insane and gave me a /48, so I have a lot of addresses.
I know my prefix by head, something everyone is still telling me is too hard for them (skill issue). You also don't have to remember 8 hextets, just your prefix. In my case that's only 3, but for you it won't be more than 4. It's not that hard. I zero out all the hextets between my prefix and the last so my v4 and v6 addresses just look like this 192.168.78.160 and 2a05:f6c7:8321::160 respectively. Don't have to remember two addresses when dualstacking.
Wouldn’t that mean everyone who wants to host their own server will have to be approved by larger instances to be able to use their instance (or else their feed would be empty) that kinda sounds dystopian ngl
Why is that dystopian? Do you think you have in inherent right to engage with any instance?
We already have parallel networks that refuse to engage because they don't tolerate each other. This is by design. I think you'll find that this kind of problem sorts itself out when the users are in control of their own bubbles, unlike traditional monolithic social media where users just have to tolerate each other or go somewhere else.
Man it took me like 3 years to get over myself and just re-learn Blender 2.8 but eventually it clicked and new blender is way better. I still have to go into settings and tick 'Select All toggles', set Select to Right mouse button and rebind focus to Q. No amount of brute force is gonna make me enjoy the new behavior for those functions, it only gets in my way.
It says (updated) but what is the update?